AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Machine Vision is crucial for quality and safety

Case Studies and Application Stories in the Automotive Industry

Together with partners and system integrators STEMMER IMAGING has many years of experience for the use of image processing system in the automotive industry. Our selected success stories can help you to get an idea of the variety of ways in practice.

A new approach to manual PCB assembly verification has helped one manufacturer significantly improve the quality of boards it manufactures for use in car audio devices. A self-contained camera system ensures that almost 50 components are correctly assembled before the boards move to the next stage.

With the new bonNDTinspect® system, Automation W+R enables the reliable assessment of surfaces that are to be bonded, painted or otherwise treated in subsequent process steps. The system is based on a patent held by Fraunhofer IFAM and machine vision components from STEMMER IMAGING.

Every day the lives of millions of people depend on intact tyres on cars and airplanes. The Carl Zeiss Optotechnik tyre inspection systems equipped with STEMMER IMAGING’s state-of-the-art machine vision components provide the maximum possible safety in this domain.

Eight Teledyne DALSA Spyder3 line scan cameras form the core of an inspection system developed by the Bavaria-based Sturm-Gruppe. The system checks sheet metal parts for compliance with required quality standards by using their CAD data for direct comparison.

Industrial vision plays an important role in reading unique identifiers in the form of 1D or 2D codes, alphanumerics or even braille for tracking and tracing applications in industries as diverse as aerospace, automotive, healthcare and pharmaceutical.

Any driver’s nightmare: the steering does not respond properly or not at all! To prevent situations like these, the automotive supplier Swoboda relies on the trevista image processing system for testing the components of for electronic steering controls.